Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

[Bryen <suseROCKS@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 14:38 +0000, Benji Weber wrote:
> On 05/03/2008, Justin Haygood <jhaygood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  > I would be interested if anyone can propose a system whereby
> >  > non-members can also vote.
> >  >
> >
> >
> > Some sort of personally identifiable (and verifiable) information could
> >  be requested, such as a legal name, phone number, and address. The phone
> >  number and address can readily be verified against each other (the
> >  number +1 905-XXX-YYYY can be associated with Ontario, Canada for
> >  instance), and you can always call it to verify the person on the other
> >  end is the person that voted.
>
> Well you can confirm that a voter is a real person easily enough by
> this or other methods, but how do you confirm that they have anything
> at all todo with the openSUSE project? It would be like allowing the
> entire world to vote in one country's elections.

Phone numbers aren't a good indicator in this day and age.  With people
migrating to different places, I often see people who move but keep
their old cellphone number for at least 2 years after they've moved.
And since more and more people are giving up landlines for cellphones as
their personal number, it further prevents validity of location based on
area code.

Bryen

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